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Design Tips: Reducing BOM items

Post author:Yash Kudale
Post published:May 7, 2023
Post category:Electronics
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While running yesterday, I noticed how this treadmill manufacturer used standard 7-segment displays with a decimal point to create a colon. The image shows the manufacturer rotating the 7-segment display and using its decimal point to form a colon for a clock. But why go through this effort? To understand that, let's discuss reducing BOM items and designing for manufacturing.…

Design Tips: Over-Current Protection

Post author:Yash Kudale
Post published:July 14, 2021
Post category:Electronics
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Over-current protection is a type of circuit protection that stops your designs from releasing the magic smoke (getting damage). In some ways, most over-current protection circuits help with the over-voltage condition too. It's because as the voltage increases, the current draw increases too. What are our options for over-current protection? The simplest form of over-current protection is adding a current…

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